85206 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 234 / Thursday, December 7, 2023 / Notices 

the United States. Nonrecourse 

marketing assistance loans are 

administered by FSA on behalf of the 

Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC). 

The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act 

of 2008 (2008 Farm Bill) authorized the 

Emergency Assistance for Livestock, 

Honey Bees, and Farm-Raised Fish 

Program (ELAP). ELAP assistance covers 

some species, loss conditions, and 

losses that are not eligible for other 

disaster assistance programs, including 

colony collapse disorder. The 

Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 

(the 2018 Farm Bill) authorized the use 

of Commodity Credit Corporation funds 

for the Emergency Assistance for 

Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-Raised 

Fish Program (ELAP). ELAP provides 

emergency assistance to eligible 

producers of livestock, honeybees and 

farm-raised fish. It covers losses due to 

an eligible adverse weather or loss 

condition, including blizzards and 

wildfires, as determined by the 

Secretary of Agriculture. ELAP covers 

losses that are not covered under other 

disaster assistance programs authorized 

by the 2014 Farm Bill, such as the 

Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) 

and the Livestock Indemnity Program 

(LIP). 

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) 

is now offering a pilot insurance 

program for apiculture. This pilot 

program uses rainfall and vegetation 

greenness indices to estimate local 

rainfall and plant health, allowing 

beekeepers to purchase insurance 

protection against production risks. The 

program will use a 5-year average honey 

yield at the state level and the annual 

average honey price at the national 

level, both based on NASS data, to 

determine insurance payments. 

The Pollinator Health Task Force uses 

data from the Honey Bee Colonies report 

to monitor honeybee colony losses 

during winter. Their goal, as laid out in 

the Pollinator Research Action Plan, is 

to reduce these losses to no more than 

15 percent within 10 years. The Food 

and Drug Administration provided some 

background information on the 

importance of honeybees in an article 

they published in July 2018. ‘‘Honey 

bees are not native to the New World. 

Most crops grown in the U.S. are not 

New World natives either. Both the 

crops and the bees evolved together in 

other areas of the globe, and were 

brought here by European settlers. 

Information suggests that the first 

honeybee colonies arrived in the Colony 

of Virginia from England early in 1622. 

Today, the commercial production of 

more than 90 crops relies on bee 

pollination. Of the approximately 3,600 

bee species that live in the U.S., the 

European honeybee2 (scientific name 

Apis mellifera) is the most common 

pollinator, making it the most important 

bee to domestic agriculture. About onethird of the food eaten by Americans 

comes from crops pollinated by honey 

bees, including apples, melons, 

cranberries, pumpkins, squash, broccoli, 

and almonds, to name just a few. 

Without the industrious honey bee, 

American dinner plates would look 

quite bare.’’ 

Description of Respondents: 

Businesses or other for-profits; Farms. 

Number of Respondents: 12,225. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

Quarterly; Annually. 

Total Burden Hours: 7,920. 

Levi S. Harrell, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26894 Filed 12–6–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Agriculture has 

submitted the following information 

collection requirement(s) to OMB for 

review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13. Comments are 

requested regarding whether the 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of burden including 

the validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on those who are to 

respond, including through the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Comments regarding this information 

collection received by January 8, 2024 

will be considered. Written comments 

and recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of the 

publication of this notice on the 

following website www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor a collection of information 

unless the collection of information 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number and the agency informs 

potential persons who are to respond to 

the collection of information that such 

persons are not required to respond to 

the collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

Title: Egg Products HACCP and 

Sanitation Standard Operating 

Procedures. 

OMB Control Number: 0583–0172. 

Summary of Collection: FSIS has been 

delegated the authority to exercise the 

functions of the Secretary (7 CFR 2.18 

and 2.53), as specified in the Federal 

Meat Inspection Act (FMIA) (21 U.S.C. 

601, et seq.), the Poultry Products 

Inspection Act (PPIA) (21 U.S.C. 451, et 

seq.), and the Egg Products Inspection 

Act (EPIA) (21 U.S.C. 1031, et seq.). 

These statutes mandate that FSIS 

protect the public by verifying that 

meat, poultry, and egg products are safe, 

wholesome, and properly labeled and 

packaged. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

FSIS requires official plants to develop 

and maintain HACCP and Sanitation 

SOP records and plans, as well as 

various transaction records. The egg 

products industry’s documentation of 

its processes, first in a plan and 

thereafter in a continuous record of 

process performance, is a more effective 

food safety approach than the sporadic 

generating of information by inspection 

program personnel. This documentation 

gives inspection program personnel a 

much broader picture of production 

than they can generate and provides 

them additional time to perform higher 

priority tasks. At the same time, it gives 

plant managers a better view of their 

own process and more opportunity to 

adjust it to prevent safety defects. To 

conduct the information collection less 

frequently will reduce the effectiveness 

of the egg products inspection program. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 132. 

Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 76,280. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26848 Filed 12–6–23; 8:45 am] 

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